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- Rudegar, on 08/22/2008, -1/+7good snapshot of flying spaghetti monster if you ask me
- TheImaginator, on 08/22/2008, -0/+6It's a manifestation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster; sauce be upon his name!
- TheMachine1, on 08/22/2008, -1/+6My hypothesis is its an alien warp drive's anti-matter containment field malfunctioning and the aliens in the galaxy are desperately trying to hold it all together perhaps with the help of Scotty because if the field drops to zero good by universe.
- pr0k, on 08/22/2008, -0/+4Why are they trying to explain His Noodly Appendage? Science has never proven anything, you know.
- Altotus, on 08/22/2008, -0/+3It's just a smidgen under 5,878,625,373,183.61 miles. That's about 39,000,000,000 times the average distance between any point on earth and the nearest Starbucks.
- Dgen_X, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2Now, lets get to work on that giant galactic baby ok?
- wunderdog, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2Hear, hear! I'm writing my Congressman now.
- heavystone, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3Has no one seen the first episode on Star Trek The Next Generation : Encounter at Farpoint!?! Its pretty clear we need to capture this entity and harness its powers!
- protogenxl, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2Well my brain is just a Jellyfish in the ocean of my Head.
- pln2bz, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2Wow, that's great. We have the author of the paper reading the Digg comments. What an opportunity to state something that should actually be obvious ...
Magnetic fields are the result of electric currents. In every definition of a terrestrial magnetic field that you'll find just about anywhere, you'll see as much stated. However, within astrophysical circles, it has become customary to complicate the issue because it is traditionally thought that plasmas in space are quasi-neutral (instantaneously charge-neutralize) and that the dominant force of the universe is gravity. Furthermore, astrophysicists have even taken to asserting that magnetic field lines are real entities that can store energy, and release that energy when they "combine" (magnetic reconnection).
For the laypeople out there, things in the real world typically do not do anything "instantaneously". That is a convenient, yet incorrect, mathematical approximation like infinity. Furthermore, magnetic field lines are not actually real entities. They are tools for mathematical modeling, and therefore they cannot store energy because they only exist on paper, computer screens, hard disks and in the minds of astrophysicists. The lines are not by themselves real, and this begs the question: if not from magnetic reconnection, where is this energy release coming from?
Mathematics can only advance science when the physical concepts are correct. If we want physics to become a real science of the natural world once more, we should not allow mathematicians to take the lead. Mathematics is a useful tool once the physical concepts are correct. I'm sorry, but mathematics ain't physics! And that is a fact.
So, the real question is what is the mechanism at play that leads to these filamentary plasmas in space? Contrary to the mainstream astrophysical consensus, the real question is NOT how we can make our observations fit to our conventional theories with mathematical tricks. The only way to answer the question about plasmas is to do laboratory work on plasmas. What we see within the laboratory is that plasmas do in fact form braided filaments and these filaments can in fact pinch together at certain points along those braids, and that this is what releases the energy. And furthermore, vast amounts of energy can be transfered over great distances by these plasma filaments -- leading to objects that can release quite a bit of energy relative to isolated, disconnected bodies in space. What's important to realize is that these filaments are in fact the *NATURAL* result of the movement of charged particles over plasmas within the laboratory. It has nothing to do with gravity or collisions or any of that other nonsense that is unfortunately quite popular today amongst the space scientists. Let me state that as clearly as possible: plasmas naturally form braided filaments that pinch together. We see it in the laboratory. We see it in space. It is a fact. You might want to step into a plasma laboratory and ask a plasma physicist who does no work with astrophysics. They will tell you as plain as day that plasmas naturally do the same thing that you're seeing in your observations, and that a charge transfer is the reason for why it occurs.
To the author of the paper, I honestly feel for you. I understand that you are under a great amount of pressure to conform to the astrophysical establishment with respect to the gravity-dominant paradigm. It's what you paid tens of thousands of dollars to learn, and defying this conventional wisdom will -- like Halton Arp -- possibly end, or at least dramatically alter, your career path. You may even have a family to worry about. The pressures to conform are enormous.
But think about this: When the world finally wakes up to the fact that space plasmas are fundamentally electrical phenomenon and that gravity is in fact a side-effect of this electrical activity, this paper and most of the others since Einstein's time will be thrown away. The price you pay for not opening your mind long enough to read "The Electric Sky" by Don Scott or "The Electric Universe" by Wallace Thornhill is that your work will eventually all be for naught. Although you may not admit it here, if you are smart you certainly realize that there is something very wrong with the Standard Model. The Electric Universe paradigm is based upon laboratory plasma physics. Space is filled with plasma. It's not exactly complicated.
I wish you good luck on your journey through life. Remember: We only get one chance to get it all right. - Ophiuchus, on 08/22/2008, -1/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_year#Numerical_ ...
- Nerdable, on 08/22/2008, -0/+2looks like someone fired up their own LHC...
- megamod, on 08/22/2008, -2/+3"filaments that can be up to 20,000 light-years long"
Are light years in metric units or something? How many miles is that in the good ol' English system? i'm proud of my country I only speak and measure things in English. it can't be larger than the Great USA that has been destiny manifested all the way to Irack. - RevAradia, on 08/22/2008, -0/+1I'm a LITTLE confused about what the topic is ... but I stay confused so what's new?
- xiox, on 08/22/2008, -0/+1A copy of the paper and more pictures can be found here http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/papers/ngc1275/ (I'm an author of the paper)
- megamod, on 08/22/2008, -2/+2"filaments that can be up to 20,000 light-years long"
Are light years in metric units or something? How many miles is that in the good ol' English system? i'm proud of my country I only speak and measure things in English. it can't be larger than the Great USA that has been destiny manifested all the way to Irack. - Kcaj, on 08/22/2008, -5/+3Hmm, front page, over 150 diggs, and only 2 comments after almost an hour...
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